just_another_personAnalyst says Trump officials may flee if Democrats win midterms: 'Would not be surprising'
Please. Nothing will happen because the Supreme Court will back Trump. Trump will pardon them.
The only possible path to accountability is if Democrats take control of Presidency/House/Senate in 3.5 years. And even then I doubt anything will be done in the name of “healing the nation”.
We don’t have 3.5 years, the midterms are all we have left.
In less than a year, the GOP has normalized complete fealty and disregard of the rule of law to Trump. Complete victory for fascism in the US right now is a matter of “when” and not “if.”
Which makes the midterms (ugh, once again, I’m getting so tired of this) the most important election of our lifetimes. Assuming we can still get free and fair elections in 2026 under the wire of total fascist takeover - re-elevating Congress to an equal branch of the government that will not merely rubber-stamp Trump’s agenda is literally the only legal move we have left.
Honestly the whole budget crisis gives me hope that our institutions are holding up.
Trump hasn’t “ordered” that the government reopens.
He doesn’t want it to open. He’s got more power without all that overview. And his goal is to crash and burn everting, so shutting g down the government help with that.
He’s been simultaneously bragging and telling Republican senators not to negotiate